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Fat grafting to protect the tailbone

Rebecca, USA - mommamia2003-0@yahoo.com

Posted 2026-08-03

When did my tailbone start? After a car accident, I was treated by a physical therapist. During one of the treatment sessions, he used a massage gun on my glutes area. Shortly afterwards, I started experiencing tailbone pain, something I had never had before. It was painful to sit down and changing positions in bed was painful for me.

I tried so many treatments to try and treat the tailbone pain. Ironically, I went to a new physical therapist who specializes in pelvic pain (although I was weary after that other PT). I did many sessions with her but didn't see much improvement.

It was only when I went to see a plastic surgeon (Dr. Danielpour in Los Angeles, see Doctors and specialists in the USA, California) for liposuction to help with some poorly distributed fat in my abdomen after multiple childbirths. I mentioned my tailbone pain and he said he has successfully treated tailbone pain before with fat grafting.

I went ahead with it and he used some fat from the lipo procedure and the fat was injected into the rear, at the top of the gluteal cleft (coccyx region?). It was almost magical - it was finally the treatment that helped me. After the fat grafting in the area, the decrease in pain in the area was immediate.

I am now a year since the fat grafting was done and the tailbone pain has been kept at bay. I used to have trouble just sitting up in bed, but that is a thing of the past. While there is some very mild tailbone pain I experience in certain positions, the majority of the time I don't think about it at all.

I just want to share this in case someone can benefit from a procedure like I had.